viv_andersons_nana
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If a club is genuinely in decline, how does it finish higher one season than it did the previous one or two? How are you measuring decline?1998-99 PL 9th
99-2000. PL 12th
00-01. PL 14th
01-02. PL 12th
02-03. PL 11th
03-04 PL 11th
04-05. PL 7th
05-06. PL 14th
06-07. PL 12th
07-08. PL 13th
08-09 PL 19th
09-10. Ch 11th
10-11. Ch 12th
11-12. Ch 7th
12-13 Ch 16th
13-14 Ch 12th Karanka rescues the season
14-15. Ch 4th.
15-16 Ch 2nd
16-17. PL 19th Karanka sacked without a plan.
17-18. Ch 5th
18-19. Ch 7th
19-20. Ch 17th
20-21. Ch 10th
21-22. Ch 7th.
It looks fairly clear Viv that the club has gone backwards on the pitch.
(A comparison of financial positions would make even worse reading and sorry Viv, but that does matter)
Surely decline means that club is finishing lower each year. Everyone, or almost everyone, was saying in the summer - including yourself I think - that the chairman had got the big calls right of late and we needed a good window to push on. How has that all changed?
There are questions about our midfield. I don’t really see how not signing a midfielder has led to these calls for root and branch reform.